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Arnd Bergmann
9646e7ce3d net, compat_ioctl: handle socket ioctl abuses in tty drivers
Slip and a few other drivers use the same ioctl numbers on
tty devices that are normally meant for sockets. This causes
problems with our compat_ioctl handling that tries to convert
the data structures in a different format.

Fortunately, these five drivers all use 32 bit compatible
data structures in the ioctl numbers, so we can just add
a trivial compat_ioctl conversion function to each of them.

SIOCSIFENCAP and SIOCGIFENCAP do not need to live in
fs/compat_ioctl.c after this any more, and they are not
used on any sockets.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-06 22:52:38 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
36e4d64a82 convert hamradio drivers to netdev_txreturnt_t
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 01:13:12 -07:00
David S. Miller
74d154189d Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/netdev.c
	net/wireless/scan.c
2009-07-23 19:03:51 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
673325951e Update Andreas Koensgen's email address
The kernel has used a stale email address of Andreas for a few years.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-17 10:07:12 -07:00
David S. Miller
252aa9d94a Revert "NET: Fix locking issues in PPP, 6pack, mkiss and strip line disciplines."
This reverts commit adeab1afb7.

As Alan Cox explained, the TTY layer changes that went recently
to get rid of the tty->low_latency stuff fixes this already,
and even for -stable it's the ->low_latency changes that should
go in to fix this, rather than this patch.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-14 13:13:41 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
adeab1afb7 NET: Fix locking issues in PPP, 6pack, mkiss and strip line disciplines.
Guido Trentalancia reports:

I am trying to use the kiss driver in the Linux kernel that is being
shipped with Fedora 10 but unfortunately I get the following oops:

mkiss: AX.25 Multikiss, Hans Albas PE1AYX
mkiss: ax0: crc mode is auto.
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): ax0: link becomes ready
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:77 __local_bh_disable+0x2f/0x83() (Not
tainted)
[...]
unloaded: microcode]
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686 #1
 [<c042ddfb>] warn_on_slowpath+0x65/0x8b
 [<c06ab62b>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x22/0x38
 [<c04228b4>] ? __enqueue_entity+0xe3/0xeb
 [<c042431e>] ? enqueue_entity+0x203/0x20b
 [<c0424361>] ? enqueue_task_fair+0x3b/0x3f
 [<c041f88c>] ? resched_task+0x3a/0x6e
 [<c06ab62b>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x22/0x38
 [<c06ab4e2>] ? _spin_lock_bh+0xb/0x16
 [<c043255b>] __local_bh_disable+0x2f/0x83
 [<c04325ba>] local_bh_disable+0xb/0xd
 [<c06ab4e2>] _spin_lock_bh+0xb/0x16
 [<f8b6f600>] mkiss_receive_buf+0x2fb/0x3a6 [mkiss]
 [<c0572a30>] flush_to_ldisc+0xf7/0x198
 [<c0572b12>] tty_flip_buffer_push+0x41/0x51
 [<f89477f2>] ftdi_process_read+0x375/0x4ad [ftdi_sio]
 [<f8947a5a>] ftdi_read_bulk_callback+0x130/0x138 [ftdi_sio]
 [<c05d4bec>] usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x63/0x93
 [<c05ea290>] uhci_giveback_urb+0xe5/0x15f
 [<c05eaabf>] uhci_scan_schedule+0x52e/0x767
 [<c05f6288>] ? psmouse_handle_byte+0xc/0xe5
 [<c054df78>] ? acpi_ev_gpe_detect+0xd6/0xe1
 [<c05ec5b0>] uhci_irq+0x110/0x125
 [<c05d4834>] usb_hcd_irq+0x40/0xa3
 [<c0465313>] handle_IRQ_event+0x2f/0x64
 [<c046642b>] handle_level_irq+0x74/0xbe
 [<c04663b7>] ? handle_level_irq+0x0/0xbe
 [<c0406e6e>] do_IRQ+0xc7/0xfe
 [<c0405668>] common_interrupt+0x28/0x30
 [<c056821a>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x162/0x19d
 [<c0617f52>] cpuidle_idle_call+0x60/0x92
 [<c0403c61>] cpu_idle+0x101/0x134
 [<c069b1ba>] rest_init+0x4e/0x50
 =======================
---[ end trace b7cc8076093467ad ]---
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:136 _local_bh_enable_ip+0x3d/0xc4()
[...]
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G        W 2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686
 [<c042ddfb>] warn_on_slowpath+0x65/0x8b
 [<c06ab62b>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x22/0x38
 [<c04228b4>] ? __enqueue_entity+0xe3/0xeb
 [<c042431e>] ? enqueue_entity+0x203/0x20b
 [<c0424361>] ? enqueue_task_fair+0x3b/0x3f
 [<c041f88c>] ? resched_task+0x3a/0x6e
 [<c06ab62b>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x22/0x38
 [<c06ab4e2>] ? _spin_lock_bh+0xb/0x16
 [<f8b6f642>] ? mkiss_receive_buf+0x33d/0x3a6 [mkiss]
 [<c04325f9>] _local_bh_enable_ip+0x3d/0xc4
 [<c0432688>] local_bh_enable_ip+0x8/0xa
 [<c06ab54d>] _spin_unlock_bh+0x11/0x13
 [<f8b6f642>] mkiss_receive_buf+0x33d/0x3a6 [mkiss]
 [<c0572a30>] flush_to_ldisc+0xf7/0x198
 [<c0572b12>] tty_flip_buffer_push+0x41/0x51
 [<f89477f2>] ftdi_process_read+0x375/0x4ad [ftdi_sio]
 [<f8947a5a>] ftdi_read_bulk_callback+0x130/0x138 [ftdi_sio]
 [<c05d4bec>] usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x63/0x93
 [<c05ea290>] uhci_giveback_urb+0xe5/0x15f
 [<c05eaabf>] uhci_scan_schedule+0x52e/0x767
 [<c05f6288>] ? psmouse_handle_byte+0xc/0xe5
 [<c054df78>] ? acpi_ev_gpe_detect+0xd6/0xe1
 [<c05ec5b0>] uhci_irq+0x110/0x125
 [<c05d4834>] usb_hcd_irq+0x40/0xa3
 [<c0465313>] handle_IRQ_event+0x2f/0x64
 [<c046642b>] handle_level_irq+0x74/0xbe
 [<c04663b7>] ? handle_level_irq+0x0/0xbe
 [<c0406e6e>] do_IRQ+0xc7/0xfe
 [<c0405668>] common_interrupt+0x28/0x30
 [<c056821a>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x162/0x19d
 [<c0617f52>] cpuidle_idle_call+0x60/0x92
 [<c0403c61>] cpu_idle+0x101/0x134
 [<c069b1ba>] rest_init+0x4e/0x50
 =======================
---[ end trace b7cc8076093467ad ]---
mkiss: ax0: Trying crc-smack
mkiss: ax0: Trying crc-flexnet

The issue was, that the locking code in mkiss was assuming it was only
ever being called in process or bh context.  Fixed by converting the
involved locking code to use irq-safe locks.

Review of other networking line disciplines shows that 6pack, both sync
and async PPP and STRIP have similar issues.  The ppp_async one is the
most interesting one as it sorts out half of the issue as far back as
2004 in commit http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git;a=commitdiff;h=2996d8deaeddd01820691a872550dc0cfba0c37d

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Reported-by: Guido Trentalancia <guido@trentalancia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-12 21:09:20 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
6ed106549d net: use NETDEV_TX_OK instead of 0 in ndo_start_xmit() functions
This patch is the result of an automatic spatch transformation to convert
all ndo_start_xmit() return values of 0 to NETDEV_TX_OK.

Some occurences are missed by the automatic conversion, those will be
handled in a seperate patch.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-05 19:16:04 -07:00
Hannes Eder
eb33ae2486 drivers/net/hamradio: fix warning: format not a string literal and no ...
Impact: Use 'static const char[]' instead of 'static char[]' and while
being at it fix an issue in 'mkiss_init_driver', where in case of an
error the status code was not passed to printk.

Fix this warnings:
  drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c: In function 'sixpack_init_driver':
  drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c:802: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
  drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c: In function 'bpq_init_driver':
  drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c:609: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
  drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c: In function 'mkiss_init_driver':
  drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c:988: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
  drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c:991: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
  drivers/net/hamradio/scc.c: In function 'scc_init_driver':
  drivers/net/hamradio/scc.c:2109: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
  drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c: In function 'yam_init_driver':
  drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c:1094: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-17 17:26:11 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
b3672a7394 6pack: convert to net_device_ops
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-21 14:02:32 -08:00
Julia Lawall
0397a26484 drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c: move a dereference below a NULL test
In each case, if the NULL test is necessary, then the dereference should be
moved below the NULL test.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@@
type T;
expression E;
identifier i,fld;
statement S;
@@

- T i = E->fld;
+ T i;
  ... when != E
      when != i
  if (E == NULL) S
+ i = E->fld;
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-11 00:06:34 -08:00
David S. Miller
babcda74e9 drivers/net: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores.
The generic packet receive code takes care of setting
netdev->last_rx when necessary, for the sake of the
bonding ARP monitor.

Drivers need not do it any more.

Some cases had to be skipped over because the drivers
were making use of the ->last_rx value themselves.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 21:11:17 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
db6d8c7a40 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (1232 commits)
  iucv: Fix bad merging.
  net_sched: Add size table for qdiscs
  net_sched: Add accessor function for packet length for qdiscs
  net_sched: Add qdisc_enqueue wrapper
  highmem: Export totalhigh_pages.
  ipv6 mcast: Omit redundant address family checks in ip6_mc_source().
  net: Use standard structures for generic socket address structures.
  ipv6 netns: Make several "global" sysctl variables namespace aware.
  netns: Use net_eq() to compare net-namespaces for optimization.
  ipv6: remove unused macros from net/ipv6.h
  ipv6: remove unused parameter from ip6_ra_control
  tcp: fix kernel panic with listening_get_next
  tcp: Remove redundant checks when setting eff_sacks
  tcp: options clean up
  tcp: Fix MD5 signatures for non-linear skbs
  sctp: Update sctp global memory limit allocations.
  sctp: remove unnecessary byteshifting, calculate directly in big-endian
  sctp: Allow only 1 listening socket with SO_REUSEADDR
  sctp: Do not leak memory on multiple listen() calls
  sctp: Support ipv6only AF_INET6 sockets.
  ...
2008-07-20 17:43:29 -07:00
Alan Cox
a352def21a tty: Ldisc revamp
Move the line disciplines towards a conventional ->ops arrangement.  For
the moment the actual 'tty_ldisc' struct in the tty is kept as part of
the tty struct but this can then be changed if it turns out that when it
all settles down we want to refcount ldiscs separately to the tty.

Pull the ldisc code out of /proc and put it with our ldisc code.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-20 17:12:34 -07:00
David S. Miller
e308a5d806 netdev: Add netdev->addr_list_lock protection.
Add netif_addr_{lock,unlock}{,_bh}() helpers.

Use them to protect operations that operate on or read
the network device unicast and multicast address lists.

Also use them in cases where the code simply wants to
block calls into the driver's ->set_rx_mode() and
->set_multicast_list() methods.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-15 00:13:44 -07:00
Paulius Zaleckas
de0561c435 6pack: use netstats in net_device structure
Use net_device_stats from net_device structure instead of local.
Kill sp_get_stats function, because by default it is used identical
internal_stats function from net/core/dev.c

Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-05-13 01:35:24 -04:00
Alan Cox
39c2e60f8c tty: add throttle/unthrottle helpers
Something Arjan suggested which allows us to clean up the code nicely

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:47 -07:00
Alan Cox
f34d7a5b70 tty: The big operations rework
- Operations are now a shared const function block as with most other Linux
  objects

- Introduce wrappers for some optional functions to get consistent behaviour

- Wrap put_char which used to be patched by the tty layer

- Document which functions are needed/optional

- Make put_char report success/fail

- Cache the driver->ops pointer in the tty as tty->ops

- Remove various surplus lock calls we no longer need

- Remove proc_write method as noted by Alexey Dobriyan

- Introduce some missing sanity checks where certain driver/ldisc
  combinations would oops as they didn't check needed methods were present

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/compat_ioctl.c build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix isicom]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/ia64/hp/sim/simserial.c build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kgdb]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:47 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox
6188e10d38 Convert asm/semaphore.h users to linux/semaphore.h
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2008-04-18 22:22:54 -04:00
Al Viro
79ea13ce07 NULL noise in drivers/net
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:07:12 -08:00
Alan Cox
d0127539ea [TTY]: Use tty_mode_ioctl() in network drivers.
We conciously make a change here - we permit mode and speed setting to
be done in things like SLIP mode. There isn't actually a technical
reason to disallow this. It's usually a silly thing to do but we can
do it and soemone might wish to do so.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07 04:14:24 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt
96de0e252c Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups
* Convert files to UTF-8.

  * Also correct some people's names
    (one example is Eißfeldt, which was found in a source file.
    Given that the author used an ß at all in a source file
    indicates that the real name has in fact a 'ß' and not an 'ss',
    which is commonly used as a substitute for 'ß' when limited to
    7bit.)

  * Correct town names (Goettingen -> Göttingen)

  * Update Eberhard Mönkeberg's address (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/8/313)

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:21:04 +02:00
Al Viro
d9a19d200f hamradio: ->hard_header() takes packet type in host-endian
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-14 12:41:52 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
3b04ddde02 [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.
Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class
not the device instance, make them into a separate object and
save memory.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
10d024c1b2 [NET]: Nuke SET_MODULE_OWNER macro.
It's been a useless no-op for long enough in 2.6 so I figured it's time to
remove it.  The number of people that could object because they're
maintaining unified 2.4 and 2.6 drivers is probably rather small.

[ Handled drivers added by netdev tree and some missed IRDA cases... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:13 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
15b1c0e822 [AX.25]: Fix default address and broadcast address initialization.
Only the callsign but not the SSID part of an AX.25 address is ASCII
based but Linux by initializes the SSID which should be just a 4-bit
number from ASCII anyway.

Fix that and convert the code to use a shared constant for both default
addresses.  While at it, use the same style for null_ax25_address also.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-08 17:19:26 -08:00
Jean Delvare
95f6134e17 [6PACK]: Masking bug in 6pack driver.
Looks like a broken masking to me, binary not is used where bitwise
not was intended.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-11-25 15:16:50 -08:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Herbert Xu
932ff279a4 [NET]: Add netif_tx_lock
Various drivers use xmit_lock internally to synchronise with their
transmission routines.  They do so without setting xmit_lock_owner.
This is fine as long as netpoll is not in use.

With netpoll it is possible for deadlocks to occur if xmit_lock_owner
isn't set.  This is because if a printk occurs while xmit_lock is held
and xmit_lock_owner is not set can cause netpoll to attempt to take
xmit_lock recursively.

While it is possible to resolve this by getting netpoll to use
trylock, it is suboptimal because netpoll's sole objective is to
maximise the chance of getting the printk out on the wire.  So
delaying or dropping the message is to be avoided as much as possible.

So the only alternative is to always set xmit_lock_owner.  The
following patch does this by introducing the netif_tx_lock family of
functions that take care of setting/unsetting xmit_lock_owner.

I renamed xmit_lock to _xmit_lock to indicate that it should not be
used directly.  I didn't provide irq versions of the netif_tx_lock
functions since xmit_lock is meant to be a BH-disabling lock.

This is pretty much a straight text substitution except for a small
bug fix in winbond.  It currently uses
netif_stop_queue/spin_unlock_wait to stop transmission.  This is
unsafe as an IRQ can potentially wake up the queue.  So it is safer to
use netif_tx_disable.

The hamradio bits used spin_lock_irq but it is unnecessary as
xmit_lock must never be taken in an IRQ handler.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:30:14 -07:00
Alan Cox
33f0f88f1c [PATCH] TTY layer buffering revamp
The API and code have been through various bits of initial review by
serial driver people but they definitely need to live somewhere for a
while so the unconverted drivers can get knocked into shape, existing
drivers that have been updated can be better tuned and bugs whacked out.

This replaces the tty flip buffers with kmalloc objects in rings. In the
normal situation for an IRQ driven serial port at typical speeds the
behaviour is pretty much the same, two buffers end up allocated and the
kernel cycles between them as before.

When there are delays or at high speed we now behave far better as the
buffer pool can grow a bit rather than lose characters. This also means
that we can operate at higher speeds reliably.

For drivers that receive characters in blocks (DMA based, USB and
especially virtualisation) the layer allows a lot of driver specific
code that works around the tty layer with private secondary queues to be
removed. The IBM folks need this sort of layer, the smart serial port
people do, the virtualisers do (because a virtualised tty typically
operates at infinite speed rather than emulating 9600 baud).

Finally many drivers had invalid and unsafe attempts to avoid buffer
overflows by directly invoking tty methods extracted out of the innards
of work queue structs. These are no longer needed and all go away. That
fixes various random hangs with serial ports on overflow.

The other change in here is to optimise the receive_room path that is
used by some callers. It turns out that only one ldisc uses receive room
except asa constant and it updates it far far less than the value is
read. We thus make it a variable not a function call.

I expect the code to contain bugs due to the size alone but I'll be
watching and squashing them and feeding out new patches as it goes.

Because the buffers now dynamically expand you should only run out of
buffering when the kernel runs out of memory for real.  That means a lot of
the horrible hacks high performance drivers used to do just aren't needed any
more.

Description:

tty_insert_flip_char is an old API and continues to work as before, as does
tty_flip_buffer_push() [this is why many drivers dont need modification].  It
does now also return the number of chars inserted

There are also

tty_buffer_request_room(tty, len)

which asks for a buffer block of the length requested and returns the space
found.  This improves efficiency with hardware that knows how much to
transfer.

and tty_insert_flip_string_flags(tty, str, flags, len)

to insert a string of characters and flags

For a smart interface the usual code is

    len = tty_request_buffer_room(tty, amount_hardware_says);
    tty_insert_flip_string(tty, buffer_from_card, len);

More description!

At the moment tty buffers are attached directly to the tty.  This is causing a
lot of the problems related to tty layer locking, also problems at high speed
and also with bursty data (such as occurs in virtualised environments)

I'm working on ripping out the flip buffers and replacing them with a pool of
dynamically allocated buffers.  This allows both for old style "byte I/O"
devices and also helps virtualisation and smart devices where large blocks of
data suddenely materialise and need storing.

So far so good.  Lots of drivers reference tty->flip.*.  Several of them also
call directly and unsafely into function pointers it provides.  This will all
break.  Most drivers can use tty_insert_flip_char which can be kept as an API
but others need more.

At the moment I've added the following interfaces, if people think more will
be needed now is a good time to say

 int tty_buffer_request_room(tty, size)

Try and ensure at least size bytes are available, returns actual room (may be
zero).  At the moment it just uses the flipbuf space but that will change.
Repeated calls without characters being added are not cumulative.  (ie if you
call it with 1, 1, 1, and then 4 you'll have four characters of space.  The
other functions will also try and grow buffers in future but this will be a
more efficient way when you know block sizes.

 int tty_insert_flip_char(tty, ch, flag)

As before insert a character if there is room.  Now returns 1 for success, 0
for failure.

 int tty_insert_flip_string(tty, str, len)

Insert a block of non error characters.  Returns the number inserted.

 int tty_prepare_flip_string(tty, strptr, len)

Adjust the buffer to allow len characters to be added.  Returns a buffer
pointer in strptr and the length available.  This allows for hardware that
needs to use functions like insl or mencpy_fromio.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:59 -08:00
Ralf Baechle
6f74998e5c [AX.25]: Rename ax25_encapsulate to ax25_hard_header
Rename ax25_encapsulate to ax25_hard_header which these days more
accurately describes what the function is supposed to do.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-12 14:21:01 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
214838a210 [PATCH] Fix 6pack setting of MAC address
Don't check type of sax25_family; dev_set_mac_address has already done
that before and anyway, the type to check against would have been
ARPHRD_AX25.  We only got away because AF_AX25 and ARPHRD_AX25 both happen
to be defined to the same value.

Don't check sax25_ndigis either; it's value is insignificant for the
purpose of setting the MAC address and the check has shown to break
some application software for no good reason.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-27 04:32:39 -04:00
Ralf Baechle
84a2ea1c2c [PATCH] 6pack Timer initialization
I dropped the timer initialization bits by accident when sending the
p-persistence fix.  This patch gets the driver to work again on halfduplex
links.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-27 04:32:39 -04:00
Ralf Baechle DL5RB
c0438174e8 [PATCH] 6pack persistence fix
Fix the p-persistence CSMA algorithm which in simplex mode was starting
with a slottime delay before doing anything else as if there was carrier
collision resulting in bad performance on simplex links.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-10 11:03:02 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
64ccd715d3 [PATCH] Convert users to tty_unregister_ldisc()
tty_register_ldisc(N_FOO, NULL) => tty_unregister_ldisc(N_FOO)

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:36 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
56cb515628 [AX25] Introduce ax25_type_trans
Replacing the open coded equivalents and making ax25 look more like
a linux network protocol, i.e. more similar to inet.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-04-24 18:53:06 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00